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Laverne Cox goes nude in Allure: “I’m a black transgender woman. I felt this could be really powerful for the communities that I represent.”

Medical, women’s health, and gun violence preventions groups unite to oppose political interference in the patient-doctor relationship

The family of a pregnant woman whose body was kept on mechanical support against her wishes for months after she was declared brain-dead testified in support of a bill that would give end-of-life decision-making rights to pregnant Texans.

Herpes is not new — but the stigma around it is.

“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?” asks 16-year-old actress Amandla Stenberg.

Protesters against police brutality have begun a 9-day march from New York To DC.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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